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New York Tech Has Officially Exploded
New York has finally made the startup big leagues. No, it hasn't produced any Facebook or Google-sized tech IPOs, but it's producing startups that are nearing $1 billion+ size exits. According to...
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10 Things You Need To Know This Morning
Goooood morning! Let's get you caught up on your news: Marissa Mayer has a grand plan for Yahoo's turnaround, and it involves mobile devices. She said that, by 2015, Yahoo will have mobile products...
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Egyptian Journalist Arrested For Defacing Anti-Muslim Poster In New York Subway
Mona Eltahawy, the prominent Egyptian-American writer and activist, has been arrested in New York after spraying paint over a controversial poster on the subway that has been condemned for equating...
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BigLaw Summer Associates Might Be Freaking Out Over Their Careers For No Reason
The American Lawyer's summer associate survey found anxiety over their controversial decision to become lawyers reached a four-year high. But those highly paid law students might have been freaked out...
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CHART: New York City Is Doing So Much Better Than New York State Or New Jersey
The New York Fed just released its August Index of Coincident Economic Indicators (CEI), a reading of economic activity across New York city, New Jersey, and New York state as a whole. New York City's...
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Sponsor Apartments May Be New York's Best-Kept Secret
If you're new to New York real estate and you've come across the term "sponsor listing" while scanning the ads, you may be wondering what it means. If you already know, you're probably wondering how...
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Legendary Party Thrower Robert 'Toshi' Chan Takes Us Inside His Williamsburg...
Robert "Toshi" Chan loves nothing more than a wild rager. But the New York City party promoter-turned-hotelier has worked hard to turn his Williamsburg penthouse into a sanctuary where he can be...
View ArticleUPDATE: Evacuation At JFK After Paperweight Mistaken For Grenade
From ABC7's Eyewitness News: #BREAKINGNEWS The customs area at Terminal 4 at JFK was evacuated as official investigate a grenade found in a travelers bag. — Eyewitness News(@eyewitnessnyc) September...
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Google Is Draining Marketing Talent From New York, Complains Ex-Googler (GOOG)
Google deserves lots of credit for infusing New York with money and tech talent. But lately, Google has partly reversed course and begun draining the area of some product marketing talent, a former...
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Judge Hands Down Bombshell Ruling In A Lesbian Custody Battle
In what is being lauded as a positive move in the fight for gay rights, a New York Family Court judge awarded full custody of a 6-year-old girl to her adoptive mother, not the woman who birthed her....
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New York Attorney General Sues JP Morgan For Fraud Over Mortgage-Backed...
This just in from Reuters. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is suing JP Morgan over mortgage-backed securities. This specifically has to do with Baer Stearns, the defunct investment bank...
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Todd Akin Attack Ads Hit The New York Campaign Trail
Anti-Todd Akin commercials: they’re not just for Missouri anymore. Voters in New York’s 24th Congressional District race turned on their TVs over the weekend and found Akin, the controversial...
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Most Ultra-Rich Americans Live In Blue States
If the Democrats are waging class warfare, it’s largely against their own voters. New data from the research firm Wealth-X shows that the bluest of blue states have far and away the largest number of...
View ArticleMetainstability
I had breakfast yesterday with a friend who had recently relocated to NYC from SF. He told me he was taken with the hyperactivity of NY'ers. I asked him where he thought it comes from. He had a great...
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The Brilliant 'Sushi Defense' Saved A New York Woman From Eviction
How is this for a defense? A woman living in the East Village in New York City has escaped eviction from her rent-stabilized apartment after arguing that she eats a lot of sushi hence her low electric...
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Here's How Much I've Spent Living In Two Different Cities
Where do you call home—and how much does it cost you to live there? Unless you’ve made a big move, from a city with one cost of living to another with a very different one, you might take things like...
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New York Bankers: Find Out What The Neighborhood You Live In Says About You
The New York City area is home to nearly 20 million people and 20 trillion cockroaches living together in blissful harmony. Well over 1 million people alone are packed into the 23 square miles that...
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A Scathing Mock Letter Takes Down The Port Authority For Rising Fares And...
On Monday, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey put into effect increased fares for the PATH train that connects the two states. Not surprisingly, some riders were not happy, including the...
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A Deep Dive Into Where You Should Go If You Want To Work In Finance
The 2008 financial crisis set in motion shock waves that are still reverberating through the American, European, and global economies, touching everything from housing to jobs to college tuition. In...
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Pinterest's First Investor Shows Us His 'Disneyland'-Like Long Island Home
Brian Cohen doesn't want you to take his 16,000-square-foot mansion seriously. You can tell what he means when you visit the labyrinthine Long Island mansion, where every hallway passes through an...
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